Hmm, at one point yesterday on FNC I heard 'someone' say 44 states had CCW. Now I did think 44 was rather high, but I wonder which is correct?
BTW, here in the Peoples Republik of Illinois, we almost had CCW passed in 1999(?) when republicans controlled the state house. It only lost by a few votes and looked like it would pass in the next session. BUT when scum-bad and soon to be convicted felon George Ryan (RINO) became governor, he made a deal with the demoncRATS and killed the bill from then on as it was sent to that nether-world of government, 'committee' and tabled.
So now, thanks to Ryan's greed and criminality, the Daley Machine controls the state and not only is CCW impossible, Daley's proposed 'Assault Weapon Ban' bill almost passed (it's MORE restrictive than the Fed law and surpasses Cal's). It only failed because a few down-state dems said no-way and 'defected'.
And it doesn't help that the Chicago Tribune regularly runs front page articles exclaiming Chicago as "The Murder Capital of the United States"!!!!